Chapter 315

Sylvie and Evander left the hospital in silence.

Neither of them spoke for several minutes. Outside the car window, ordinary life kept moving past, a mother pushing a stroller, two kids chasing each other around a lamppost, someone laughing into a phone at a bus stop. All of it so normal it almost hurt to watch.

Evander reached over and took her hand.

"Do you regret going?"

She shook her head. "No